Philip Hensley was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in December of 1955. His mother is Dorothy Louise Reed and his father is Robert Edwin Hensley, both of Tulsa. He has one younger sister by the name of Sara (Hensley) Rommel. He is not married, and has no children.

Philip has worked in the amusement park business, and traveled with Murphy Brothers Expositions, operating carnival rides. He also worked as a full-time disk jockey in disco clubs until 1982. He began working in the funeral business, working at a local funeral home, part-time at first, during the daytime hours, and spinning records at night. In 1986, Philip and a funeral director purchased a cremation society/funeral home in Sarasota, Florida, which they sold in 1993. That same year, he purchased a cremation society/funeral home in Ft Worth, Texas. In 1998, he sold his interests in that business and moved back to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he is currently managing his own residential rental property. His hobbies include power boating, going to the lake, remodeling buildings, reading, genealogy, and classic cars. He is currently petitioning to join the National Society Sons of the American Revolution, and is a Kentucky Colonel, being appointed this year by Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher.

His Confederate ancestor was Samuel Charles Caudill, 2nd Lieutenant with the Kentucky 10th Infantry! S.C. Caudill was a brother to Colonel Ben Caudill. Samuel's wife was Mary Greear, (Greer) who was descended from Revolutionary War Hero Patriot Shadrack Greear. Samuel Charles and Mary had a daughter named Arah, who married John W. Hale, a circuit court judge in Letcher County, Kentucky. They had many children, one of whom was Clara Hale. Clara Hale married Philip's grandfather, Eli Hensley. They had a son named Robert, who is Philip's father.

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